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DE  your playing and singing  on the videos  I  have seen. has been excellent.

That is  a great poem EB short and sweet and works a treat while telling a story.about maybe a tennis player.

TF  that is an excellent poem. Over here in New Zealand our news has become infotainment where the truth as they say doesnt get in the way of a good story.  Sensationalism without substance. Our  news media  seems to me to be governed by, and full of advertisers.politicians, with public relation marketers who seem to be up to something other than giving us good infomation. We have  now  got this world where good arguments are ignored by the media. You mention gotta boost ratings in your poem and world wide now it is  also about the advertising dollar.  If your show rates high the revenue generated by having advertisers place their product with you costing big dollars makes that media company even more profitable. There is alot of deception out there which can help to subvert, justice fairness,and democracy.and the building of benificial relationships between the people and government.

You got a good future as a musician. Curt

Grah nicely made and sounds great when you play it.

TF That was brilliant.a great find.

Cheers, Bill chordie has a lot of interesting and talented kind people on here. You, Classical Guitar , Neo and Phill plus the many others who pass on their valuable innsights and knowledge. Also I must  thank Neo for mentioning  APRA which does alot of the work required here in NZ and Australia to make sure songwriters get their proper royalties. They also have done alot of work in our schools with our youth who are into performing and composing  teaching them about music and the industry.
The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) is a copyright collective representing Australian and New Zealander composers, lyricists and music publishers.

Thank you

Pete

The bucolic Southern Alps, glacier carved fjords and lush pastoral landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand mask a dark statistic – one of the highest suicide rates in the western world.
From Bluff at the bottom of the South Island to Moerewa in the poorer North, New Zealanders are killing themselves at unprecedented rates. Here we are in a country with everything and our suicide rate is higher than the road toll.  I wont try and explain depression and  anxiety but what I will say it is a real condition which people like myself who have suffered from it wouldnt wish on anyone else. Now I wouldnt commit suicide but I can see that part of the solution to stopping a person  doing that is getting help and sadly not everyone does and the results are devastating for the families of those  that do.away with themselves.  By the way I am all good now but are always  conscious of what could trigger me again to go into that dark space. I am also  aware what people see on outside can mask what is  on the inside. When depression and anxiety strike it  quiet often hits when outwardly the person appears to be having the good life.

Excellent lyrics another good song.  That lawn mowing is good for your songwriting. I love your  imagery of the travel through life and your descriptions  such as Land of the  broken souls.

Mein Herr Wilhelm great idea though I am not sure if Harry would be allowed to join Queen as a band member once he started playing in public. Maybe he could come to chordie for good music advice?   I supose you would already know the royal connection to Germany.   Edward VII and, in turn, his son, George V, were members of the German ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha by virtue of their descent from Albert, Prince Consort, husband of Queen Victoria, the last British monarch from the House of Hanover. High anti-German sentiment amongst the people of the British Empire during World War I reached a peak in March 1917, when the Gotha G.IV, a heavy aircraft capable of crossing the English Channel, began bombing London directly and became a household name. In the same year, on 15 March, King George's first cousin, Nicholas II, the Emperor of Russia, was forced to abdicate, which raised the spectre of the eventual abolition of all the monarchies in Europe. The King and his family were finally convinced to abandon all titles held under the German Crown and to change German titles and house names to anglicised versions. Hence, on 17 July 1917, a royal proclamation issued by George V declared:
Now, therefore, We, out of Our Royal Will and Authority, do hereby declare and announce that as from the date of this Our Royal Proclamation Our House and Family shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that all the descendants in the male line of Our said Grandmother Queen Victoria who are subjects of these Realms, other than female descendants who may marry or may have married, shall bear the said Name of Windsor....
The name had a long association with monarchy in Britain, through the town of Windsor, Berkshire, and Windsor Castle where Harry and Meghan got marrried.

Jim, You know more about history than I.  History is the realm of us all. Your post and others are very interesting to me. Though I am interested in history my knowledge is not that great. I hope that your students appreciate the men and woman who served and I am sure your teaching will make them aware.
                                         “You have to know the past to understand the present"  ― Carl Sagan
                                                                          DE thank you for reminding us to honour those who made the great sacrifice.

Good one Jim you are an excellent songwriter.